APS elementary planning initiative called off

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Anonymous wrote:What's really interesting is that if you just read the comments in this thread without knowing what actually happened in the election, you get the impression the Cherrydale people flocked to the meeting to vote out Rosslyn people and get a Cherrydale-centered PTA board that would push for a walk zone. In reality, it appears that it was Rosslyn people who flocked to the meeting to vote out Cherrydale-area board members in favor of Rosslyn people.

A Cherrydale centered PTA with participants who did not have students attending the school.

Further, that Cherrydale focused PTA were lottery parents; do think of the Rosslyn PTA members were advocating to the school board to remove lottery families, there would not have been a similar response?

Isn't that what Rosslyn PTA members want to do now? From what I've read on this thread, they seem to hate them all and want them removed from the school?

Very likely that is what they want now, but its a response to the pre-emptive actions from Cherrydale community members making space for themselves at the expense of current Rosslyn students. A bit different; Rosslyn parents were part of the group recommending the Buck site, which is an inclusive approach to make space for all who want to attend their neighborhood school.

Absolutely incorrect. The whole Buck idea was originally thought of and advocated for those who live near the school. They were advocating to expand the school onto Buck last year during the Options and Transfer process, before the Rosslyn folks even understood what was going on. The fact is the Rosslyn/Courthosue crew is an angry and vindictive group who have said and done some really nasty things to several really good people. These same people who were ironically advocating for them. So sad.

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https://commissions.arlingtonva.us/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2017/06/Buck-May-3-Notes.pdf

Exactly they were advocating expanding the space for themselves — to accelerate the adoption of a walk zone. When that tied turned, it was the complaints about traffic and Rosslyn is already going on a bus, so send them to Taylor. We are just saying put the breaks on adding to an overcapacity school until 2021 when the system will have a clearer picture. If you add the Cherrydale walkzone, there isn’t space and someone has to be pushed out — do Cherrydale residents all hate Taylor this much to go to this lengths ; it isn’t like when they moved here they didn’t know the zoned school. Just be patient and chill.

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You will get your walkable school, Cherrydale. Can you just chill until we can all work it out?

You realize that your actions caused the (over)reaction from Rosslyn?

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Anonymous wrote:What's really interesting is that if you just read the comments in this thread without knowing what actually happened in the election, you get the impression the Cherrydale people flocked to the meeting to vote out Rosslyn people and get a Cherrydale-centered PTA board that would push for a walk zone. In reality, it appears that it was Rosslyn people who flocked to the meeting to vote out Cherrydale-area board members in favor of Rosslyn people.

A Cherrydale centered PTA with participants who did not have students attending the school.

Further, that Cherrydale focused PTA were lottery parents; do think of the Rosslyn PTA members were advocating to the school board to remove lottery families, there would not have been a similar response?

Isn't that what Rosslyn PTA members want to do now? From what I've read on this thread, they seem to hate them all and want them removed from the school?

Very likely that is what they want now, but its a response to the pre-emptive actions from Cherrydale community members making space for themselves at the expense of current Rosslyn students. A bit different; Rosslyn parents were part of the group recommending the Buck site, which is an inclusive approach to make space for all who want to attend their neighborhood school.

Absolutely incorrect. The whole Buck idea was originally thought of and advocated for those who live near the school. They were advocating to expand the school onto Buck last year during the Options and Transfer process, before the Rosslyn folks even understood what was going on. The fact is the Rosslyn/Courthosue crew is an angry and vindictive group who have said and done some really nasty things to several really good people. These same people who were ironically advocating for them. So sad.

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https://commissions.arlingtonva.us/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2017/06/Buck-May-3-Notes.pdf

Exactly they were advocating expanding the space for themselves — to accelerate the adoption of a walk zone. When that tied turned, it was the complaints about traffic and Rosslyn is already going on a bus, so send them to Taylor. We are just saying put the breaks on adding to an overcapacity school until 2021 when the system will have a clearer picture. If you add the Cherrydale walkzone, there isn’t space and someone has to be pushed out — do Cherrydale residents all hate Taylor this much to go to this lengths ; it isn’t like when they moved here they didn’t know the zoned school. Just be patient and chill.

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You will get your walkable school, Cherrydale. Can you just chill until we can all work it out?

You realize that your actions caused the (over)reaction from Rosslyn?

This. Everyone needs to wait. You might have had your walk zone if you hadn't added to the chorus of voices against any changes to option locations. Here's the thing: not everyone at ASFS will get to stay when they re-do the boundary. If they re-do it now instead of as part of the larger process, they would be repeating short-sighted mistakes. A "refinement" is not going end up being the best solution, and may preclude making real substantive changes the following year. Just wait. Your school isn't going to have 1,000 extra kids next year.

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Anonymous wrote:What's really interesting is that if you just read the comments in this thread without knowing what actually happened in the election, you get the impression the Cherrydale people flocked to the meeting to vote out Rosslyn people and get a Cherrydale-centered PTA board that would push for a walk zone. In reality, it appears that it was Rosslyn people who flocked to the meeting to vote out Cherrydale-area board members in favor of Rosslyn people.

A Cherrydale centered PTA with participants who did not have students attending the school.

Further, that Cherrydale focused PTA were lottery parents; do think of the Rosslyn PTA members were advocating to the school board to remove lottery families, there would not have been a similar response?

Isn't that what Rosslyn PTA members want to do now? From what I've read on this thread, they seem to hate them all and want them removed from the school?

Very likely that is what they want now, but its a response to the pre-emptive actions from Cherrydale community members making space for themselves at the expense of current Rosslyn students. A bit different; Rosslyn parents were part of the group recommending the Buck site, which is an inclusive approach to make space for all who want to attend their neighborhood school.

Absolutely incorrect. The whole Buck idea was originally thought of and advocated for those who live near the school. They were advocating to expand the school onto Buck last year during the Options and Transfer process, before the Rosslyn folks even understood what was going on. The fact is the Rosslyn/Courthosue crew is an angry and vindictive group who have said and done some really nasty things to several really good people. These same people who were ironically advocating for them. So sad.

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https://commissions.arlingtonva.us/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2017/06/Buck-May-3-Notes.pdf

Exactly they were advocating expanding the space for themselves — to accelerate the adoption of a walk zone. When that tied turned, it was the complaints about traffic and Rosslyn is already going on a bus, so send them to Taylor. We are just saying put the breaks on adding to an overcapacity school until 2021 when the system will have a clearer picture. If you add the Cherrydale walkzone, there isn’t space and someone has to be pushed out — do Cherrydale residents all hate Taylor this much to go to this lengths ; it isn’t like when they moved here they didn’t know the zoned school. Just be patient and chill.

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You will get your walkable school, Cherrydale. Can you just chill until we can all work it out?

You realize that your actions caused the (over)reaction from Rosslyn?

“Baby, I only hit you ‘cause you made me do it.”

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Anonymous wrote:We are so far into stupid territory now, I feel like I lose brain cells every time I open this thread.

This is why they need to draw those boundaries now, so we can all stop wasting our time with this insanity.

No, that just gives us two rounds of stupid on ASFS. Now and in two years when they refine it before Reed opens.

That's why the entire boundary needs to be done for 2019. No reason to extend the pain.

That will mean the boundaries to be implemented for 2021 will be based on projections that are three years out of date at that point. They have been very explicit on this, any boundaries drawn now for 2021 will be checked again in 2020 to make sure they are still appropriate at that time. Again with the stupid.

Just because you keep saying it doesn't make it so. You hear the echo chamber? Sounds loud to me.

Projections are fairly stable. They might make a couple planning unit refinements here and there for 2021 to ASFS, but the big change will be in 2019.

Projections are fine, but they can't project what the decision will be on moving options schools, which politically they want to make the decision close to implementation time so less time for backpedaling. They can decide in 2018 to move Key to Nottingham in 2021, but that's 3 years of gnashing teeth and matched t-shirts at every school board meeting. If they just table No Arlington, MAYBE move a few southern ASFS boundary PUs to LB if Fleet gives it breathing room, that's all they can do until the final decision on option locations is set.

Key isn't moving to Nottingham, APS already said the only program that would work at Nottingham is ATS. Immersion already struggles to attract enough spanish-speaking students, moving it away from spanish-speaking families will only make it worse. Putting ATS north of Lee Highway is just as shitty an idea because whether they put it at Nottingham or Tuckahoe there will be hundreds of families who could just as easily walk to ATS as to their neighborhood school, they will flood ATS with applications and UMC SA families can kiss it goodbye.

YES! I don’t understand why more people weren’t seeing this. Moving ATS to any NW school would only lessen economic diversity. You cannot increase diversity with the existing lottery system.

They aren't talking about moving an option school to the NW to increase diversity. It's because they done messed up and promised a neighborhood school at Reed after they just built Discovwry and they'll have too many seats all in one quadrant with overlapping walk zones and not enough seats in all the rest of the county. They want an option school somewhere up there so that they can even out enrollment, because they don't have the money to build another school for many years, and the boundaries they'd have to draw to make all schools equally full without an option school up there will be insane. I guess we'll get to see them. They'll probably look some some gerrymandered congressional district boundaries. They won't be "neighborhood" schools anymore anyway with the way they'll have to carve them up.

You could fill Reed with the excess students at McKinley and a bunch of Ashlawn to make room for kids from south of 50. Boundaries for school north of Lee can largely stay the same, those school are all basically full already.

Except, they are doing the S boundaries and schools separately from the N now, so how would that work? They can't use the S schools to shift things around to correct for the mistake they made in the NW unless it's all part of the same process, and now it's not going to be. They're just going to do small scale revisions around Fleet, because this larger process was delayed. That decision could box in whatever they hoped to do when they work on the area around Reed. It should've all been one process. Now the idea of any boundaries crossing 50 may not be possible.

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Anonymous wrote:We are so far into stupid territory now, I feel like I lose brain cells every time I open this thread.

This is why they need to draw those boundaries now, so we can all stop wasting our time with this insanity.

No, that just gives us two rounds of stupid on ASFS. Now and in two years when they refine it before Reed opens.

That's why the entire boundary needs to be done for 2019. No reason to extend the pain.

That will mean the boundaries to be implemented for 2021 will be based on projections that are three years out of date at that point. They have been very explicit on this, any boundaries drawn now for 2021 will be checked again in 2020 to make sure they are still appropriate at that time. Again with the stupid.

Just because you keep saying it doesn't make it so. You hear the echo chamber? Sounds loud to me.

Projections are fairly stable. They might make a couple planning unit refinements here and there for 2021 to ASFS, but the big change will be in 2019.

Projections are fine, but they can't project what the decision will be on moving options schools, which politically they want to make the decision close to implementation time so less time for backpedaling. They can decide in 2018 to move Key to Nottingham in 2021, but that's 3 years of gnashing teeth and matched t-shirts at every school board meeting. If they just table No Arlington, MAYBE move a few southern ASFS boundary PUs to LB if Fleet gives it breathing room, that's all they can do until the final decision on option locations is set.

Key isn't moving to Nottingham, APS already said the only program that would work at Nottingham is ATS. Immersion already struggles to attract enough spanish-speaking students, moving it away from spanish-speaking families will only make it worse. Putting ATS north of Lee Highway is just as shitty an idea because whether they put it at Nottingham or Tuckahoe there will be hundreds of families who could just as easily walk to ATS as to their neighborhood school, they will flood ATS with applications and UMC SA families can kiss it goodbye.

YES! I don’t understand why more people weren’t seeing this. Moving ATS to any NW school would only lessen economic diversity. You cannot increase diversity with the existing lottery system.

They aren't talking about moving an option school to the NW to increase diversity. It's because they done messed up and promised a neighborhood school at Reed after they just built Discovwry and they'll have too many seats all in one quadrant with overlapping walk zones and not enough seats in all the rest of the county. They want an option school somewhere up there so that they can even out enrollment, because they don't have the money to build another school for many years, and the boundaries they'd have to draw to make all schools equally full without an option school up there will be insane. I guess we'll get to see them. They'll probably look some some gerrymandered congressional district boundaries. They won't be "neighborhood" schools anymore anyway with the way they'll have to carve them up.

You could fill Reed with the excess students at McKinley and a bunch of Ashlawn to make room for kids from south of 50. Boundaries for school north of Lee can largely stay the same, those school are all basically full already.

Except, they are doing the S boundaries and schools separately from the N now, so how would that work? They can't use the S schools to shift things around to correct for the mistake they made in the NW unless it's all part of the same process, and now it's not going to be. They're just going to do small scale revisions around Fleet, because this larger process was delayed. That decision could box in whatever they hoped to do when they work on the area around Reed. It should've all been one process. Now the idea of any boundaries crossing 50 may not be possible.

They’re not doing all of the south boundaries now, go look at the presentation. The only ones being done now are the SE boundaries, and a little in the zones surrounding that as needed to do those boundaries properly. The staff laid it out very carefully to preserve their location options. The SW schools are in the zone that may get small changes now but otherwise will be done for 2021.

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Anonymous wrote:What's really interesting is that if you just read the comments in this thread without knowing what actually happened in the election, you get the impression the Cherrydale people flocked to the meeting to vote out Rosslyn people and get a Cherrydale-centered PTA board that would push for a walk zone. In reality, it appears that it was Rosslyn people who flocked to the meeting to vote out Cherrydale-area board members in favor of Rosslyn people.

A Cherrydale centered PTA with participants who did not have students attending the school.

Further, that Cherrydale focused PTA were lottery parents; do think of the Rosslyn PTA members were advocating to the school board to remove lottery families, there would not have been a similar response?

Isn't that what Rosslyn PTA members want to do now? From what I've read on this thread, they seem to hate them all and want them removed from the school?

Very likely that is what they want now, but its a response to the pre-emptive actions from Cherrydale community members making space for themselves at the expense of current Rosslyn students. A bit different; Rosslyn parents were part of the group recommending the Buck site, which is an inclusive approach to make space for all who want to attend their neighborhood school.

Absolutely incorrect. The whole Buck idea was originally thought of and advocated for those who live near the school. They were advocating to expand the school onto Buck last year during the Options and Transfer process, before the Rosslyn folks even understood what was going on. The fact is the Rosslyn/Courthosue crew is an angry and vindictive group who have said and done some really nasty things to several really good people. These same people who were ironically advocating for them. So sad.

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https://commissions.arlingtonva.us/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2017/06/Buck-May-3-Notes.pdf

Exactly they were advocating expanding the space for themselves — to accelerate the adoption of a walk zone. When that tied turned, it was the complaints about traffic and Rosslyn is already going on a bus, so send them to Taylor. We are just saying put the breaks on adding to an overcapacity school until 2021 when the system will have a clearer picture. If you add the Cherrydale walkzone, there isn’t space and someone has to be pushed out — do Cherrydale residents all hate Taylor this much to go to this lengths ; it isn’t like when they moved here they didn’t know the zoned school. Just be patient and chill.

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You will get your walkable school, Cherrydale. Can you just chill until we can all work it out?

You realize that your actions caused the (over)reaction from Rosslyn?

“Baby, I only hit you ‘cause you made me do it.”

The actions from both neighborhoods are disappointing to the community.

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Anonymous wrote:What's really interesting is that if you just read the comments in this thread without knowing what actually happened in the election, you get the impression the Cherrydale people flocked to the meeting to vote out Rosslyn people and get a Cherrydale-centered PTA board that would push for a walk zone. In reality, it appears that it was Rosslyn people who flocked to the meeting to vote out Cherrydale-area board members in favor of Rosslyn people.

A Cherrydale centered PTA with participants who did not have students attending the school.

Further, that Cherrydale focused PTA were lottery parents; do think of the Rosslyn PTA members were advocating to the school board to remove lottery families, there would not have been a similar response?

Isn't that what Rosslyn PTA members want to do now? From what I've read on this thread, they seem to hate them all and want them removed from the school?

Very likely that is what they want now, but its a response to the pre-emptive actions from Cherrydale community members making space for themselves at the expense of current Rosslyn students. A bit different; Rosslyn parents were part of the group recommending the Buck site, which is an inclusive approach to make space for all who want to attend their neighborhood school.

Absolutely incorrect. The whole Buck idea was originally thought of and advocated for those who live near the school. They were advocating to expand the school onto Buck last year during the Options and Transfer process, before the Rosslyn folks even understood what was going on. The fact is the Rosslyn/Courthosue crew is an angry and vindictive group who have said and done some really nasty things to several really good people. These same people who were ironically advocating for them. So sad.

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https://commissions.arlingtonva.us/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2017/06/Buck-May-3-Notes.pdf

Exactly they were advocating expanding the space for themselves — to accelerate the adoption of a walk zone. When that tied turned, it was the complaints about traffic and Rosslyn is already going on a bus, so send them to Taylor. We are just saying put the breaks on adding to an overcapacity school until 2021 when the system will have a clearer picture. If you add the Cherrydale walkzone, there isn’t space and someone has to be pushed out — do Cherrydale residents all hate Taylor this much to go to this lengths ; it isn’t like when they moved here they didn’t know the zoned school. Just be patient and chill.

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You will get your walkable school, Cherrydale. Can you just chill until we can all work it out?

You realize that your actions caused the (over)reaction from Rosslyn?

The reasonable actions of Cherrydale to ask APS to not move ASFS. A position Rosslyn has said they agree with caused all this mess? Don’t think so. You can’t be logical with the Cra Cra.

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Anonymous wrote:What's really interesting is that if you just read the comments in this thread without knowing what actually happened in the election, you get the impression the Cherrydale people flocked to the meeting to vote out Rosslyn people and get a Cherrydale-centered PTA board that would push for a walk zone. In reality, it appears that it was Rosslyn people who flocked to the meeting to vote out Cherrydale-area board members in favor of Rosslyn people.

A Cherrydale centered PTA with participants who did not have students attending the school.

Further, that Cherrydale focused PTA were lottery parents; do think of the Rosslyn PTA members were advocating to the school board to remove lottery families, there would not have been a similar response?

Isn't that what Rosslyn PTA members want to do now? From what I've read on this thread, they seem to hate them all and want them removed from the school?

Very likely that is what they want now, but its a response to the pre-emptive actions from Cherrydale community members making space for themselves at the expense of current Rosslyn students. A bit different; Rosslyn parents were part of the group recommending the Buck site, which is an inclusive approach to make space for all who want to attend their neighborhood school.

Absolutely incorrect. The whole Buck idea was originally thought of and advocated for those who live near the school. They were advocating to expand the school onto Buck last year during the Options and Transfer process, before the Rosslyn folks even understood what was going on. The fact is the Rosslyn/Courthosue crew is an angry and vindictive group who have said and done some really nasty things to several really good people. These same people who were ironically advocating for them. So sad.

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https://commissions.arlingtonva.us/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2017/06/Buck-May-3-Notes.pdf

Exactly they were advocating expanding the space for themselves — to accelerate the adoption of a walk zone. When that tied turned, it was the complaints about traffic and Rosslyn is already going on a bus, so send them to Taylor. We are just saying put the breaks on adding to an overcapacity school until 2021 when the system will have a clearer picture. If you add the Cherrydale walkzone, there isn’t space and someone has to be pushed out — do Cherrydale residents all hate Taylor this much to go to this lengths ; it isn’t like when they moved here they didn’t know the zoned school. Just be patient and chill.

+1

You will get your walkable school, Cherrydale. Can you just chill until we can all work it out?

You realize that your actions caused the (over)reaction from Rosslyn?

“Baby, I only hit you ‘cause you made me do it.”

Spousal abuse, what a tasteful and appropriate analogy

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Anonymous wrote:What's really interesting is that if you just read the comments in this thread without knowing what actually happened in the election, you get the impression the Cherrydale people flocked to the meeting to vote out Rosslyn people and get a Cherrydale-centered PTA board that would push for a walk zone. In reality, it appears that it was Rosslyn people who flocked to the meeting to vote out Cherrydale-area board members in favor of Rosslyn people.

A Cherrydale centered PTA with participants who did not have students attending the school.

Further, that Cherrydale focused PTA were lottery parents; do think of the Rosslyn PTA members were advocating to the school board to remove lottery families, there would not have been a similar response?

Isn't that what Rosslyn PTA members want to do now? From what I've read on this thread, they seem to hate them all and want them removed from the school?

Very likely that is what they want now, but its a response to the pre-emptive actions from Cherrydale community members making space for themselves at the expense of current Rosslyn students. A bit different; Rosslyn parents were part of the group recommending the Buck site, which is an inclusive approach to make space for all who want to attend their neighborhood school.

Absolutely incorrect. The whole Buck idea was originally thought of and advocated for those who live near the school. They were advocating to expand the school onto Buck last year during the Options and Transfer process, before the Rosslyn folks even understood what was going on. The fact is the Rosslyn/Courthosue crew is an angry and vindictive group who have said and done some really nasty things to several really good people. These same people who were ironically advocating for them. So sad.

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https://commissions.arlingtonva.us/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2017/06/Buck-May-3-Notes.pdf

Exactly they were advocating expanding the space for themselves — to accelerate the adoption of a walk zone. When that tied turned, it was the complaints about traffic and Rosslyn is already going on a bus, so send them to Taylor. We are just saying put the breaks on adding to an overcapacity school until 2021 when the system will have a clearer picture. If you add the Cherrydale walkzone, there isn’t space and someone has to be pushed out — do Cherrydale residents all hate Taylor this much to go to this lengths ; it isn’t like when they moved here they didn’t know the zoned school. Just be patient and chill.

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You will get your walkable school, Cherrydale. Can you just chill until we can all work it out?

You realize that your actions caused the (over)reaction from Rosslyn?

I'm cool with the two phase approach. 2019 the Market Common neighborhood and the tip of Rosslyn and Rosslyn south of 50 move. 2021 the rest of the boundaries at the school are changed.

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Anonymous wrote:What's really interesting is that if you just read the comments in this thread without knowing what actually happened in the election, you get the impression the Cherrydale people flocked to the meeting to vote out Rosslyn people and get a Cherrydale-centered PTA board that would push for a walk zone. In reality, it appears that it was Rosslyn people who flocked to the meeting to vote out Cherrydale-area board members in favor of Rosslyn people.

A Cherrydale centered PTA with participants who did not have students attending the school.

Further, that Cherrydale focused PTA were lottery parents; do think of the Rosslyn PTA members were advocating to the school board to remove lottery families, there would not have been a similar response?

Isn't that what Rosslyn PTA members want to do now? From what I've read on this thread, they seem to hate them all and want them removed from the school?

Very likely that is what they want now, but its a response to the pre-emptive actions from Cherrydale community members making space for themselves at the expense of current Rosslyn students. A bit different; Rosslyn parents were part of the group recommending the Buck site, which is an inclusive approach to make space for all who want to attend their neighborhood school.

Absolutely incorrect. The whole Buck idea was originally thought of and advocated for those who live near the school. They were advocating to expand the school onto Buck last year during the Options and Transfer process, before the Rosslyn folks even understood what was going on. The fact is the Rosslyn/Courthosue crew is an angry and vindictive group who have said and done some really nasty things to several really good people. These same people who were ironically advocating for them. So sad.

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https://commissions.arlingtonva.us/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2017/06/Buck-May-3-Notes.pdf

Exactly they were advocating expanding the space for themselves — to accelerate the adoption of a walk zone. When that tied turned, it was the complaints about traffic and Rosslyn is already going on a bus, so send them to Taylor. We are just saying put the breaks on adding to an overcapacity school until 2021 when the system will have a clearer picture. If you add the Cherrydale walkzone, there isn’t space and someone has to be pushed out — do Cherrydale residents all hate Taylor this much to go to this lengths ; it isn’t like when they moved here they didn’t know the zoned school. Just be patient and chill.

+1

You will get your walkable school, Cherrydale. Can you just chill until we can all work it out?

You realize that your actions caused the (over)reaction from Rosslyn?

“Baby, I only hit you ‘cause you made me do it.”

Spousal abuse, what a tasteful and appropriate analogy

Don't use abusive language and people won't be able to call you out on it.

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Anonymous wrote:What's really interesting is that if you just read the comments in this thread without knowing what actually happened in the election, you get the impression the Cherrydale people flocked to the meeting to vote out Rosslyn people and get a Cherrydale-centered PTA board that would push for a walk zone. In reality, it appears that it was Rosslyn people who flocked to the meeting to vote out Cherrydale-area board members in favor of Rosslyn people.

A Cherrydale centered PTA with participants who did not have students attending the school.

Further, that Cherrydale focused PTA were lottery parents; do think of the Rosslyn PTA members were advocating to the school board to remove lottery families, there would not have been a similar response?

Isn't that what Rosslyn PTA members want to do now? From what I've read on this thread, they seem to hate them all and want them removed from the school?

Very likely that is what they want now, but its a response to the pre-emptive actions from Cherrydale community members making space for themselves at the expense of current Rosslyn students. A bit different; Rosslyn parents were part of the group recommending the Buck site, which is an inclusive approach to make space for all who want to attend their neighborhood school.

Absolutely incorrect. The whole Buck idea was originally thought of and advocated for those who live near the school. They were advocating to expand the school onto Buck last year during the Options and Transfer process, before the Rosslyn folks even understood what was going on. The fact is the Rosslyn/Courthosue crew is an angry and vindictive group who have said and done some really nasty things to several really good people. These same people who were ironically advocating for them. So sad.

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https://commissions.arlingtonva.us/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2017/06/Buck-May-3-Notes.pdf

Exactly they were advocating expanding the space for themselves — to accelerate the adoption of a walk zone. When that tied turned, it was the complaints about traffic and Rosslyn is already going on a bus, so send them to Taylor. We are just saying put the breaks on adding to an overcapacity school until 2021 when the system will have a clearer picture. If you add the Cherrydale walkzone, there isn’t space and someone has to be pushed out — do Cherrydale residents all hate Taylor this much to go to this lengths ; it isn’t like when they moved here they didn’t know the zoned school. Just be patient and chill.

Distorting the facts really undermines your position. Last year when Cherrydale conceived the Buck expansion option no one was discussing boundaries. Cherrydale families were already in the school, so it makes no sense that they were "advocating expanding the space for themselves". When people moved to Cherrydale they had just as much of a right to attend the school as anyone else in the Team. Noah Simmon, former SB member, lived in Cherrydale and sent his kids to ASF, via the Team model. No one in Cherrydale ever advocated to have anyone moved out. A few cowardly psychotic misinformed people decided to get engaged last minute and demonize part of the school.

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Anonymous wrote:What's really interesting is that if you just read the comments in this thread without knowing what actually happened in the election, you get the impression the Cherrydale people flocked to the meeting to vote out Rosslyn people and get a Cherrydale-centered PTA board that would push for a walk zone. In reality, it appears that it was Rosslyn people who flocked to the meeting to vote out Cherrydale-area board members in favor of Rosslyn people.

A Cherrydale centered PTA with participants who did not have students attending the school.

Further, that Cherrydale focused PTA were lottery parents; do think of the Rosslyn PTA members were advocating to the school board to remove lottery families, there would not have been a similar response?

Isn't that what Rosslyn PTA members want to do now? From what I've read on this thread, they seem to hate them all and want them removed from the school?

Very likely that is what they want now, but its a response to the pre-emptive actions from Cherrydale community members making space for themselves at the expense of current Rosslyn students. A bit different; Rosslyn parents were part of the group recommending the Buck site, which is an inclusive approach to make space for all who want to attend their neighborhood school.

Absolutely incorrect. The whole Buck idea was originally thought of and advocated for those who live near the school. They were advocating to expand the school onto Buck last year during the Options and Transfer process, before the Rosslyn folks even understood what was going on. The fact is the Rosslyn/Courthosue crew is an angry and vindictive group who have said and done some really nasty things to several really good people. These same people who were ironically advocating for them. So sad.

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https://commissions.arlingtonva.us/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2017/06/Buck-May-3-Notes.pdf

Exactly they were advocating expanding the space for themselves — to accelerate the adoption of a walk zone. When that tied turned, it was the complaints about traffic and Rosslyn is already going on a bus, so send them to Taylor. We are just saying put the breaks on adding to an overcapacity school until 2021 when the system will have a clearer picture. If you add the Cherrydale walkzone, there isn’t space and someone has to be pushed out — do Cherrydale residents all hate Taylor this much to go to this lengths ; it isn’t like when they moved here they didn’t know the zoned school. Just be patient and chill.

Distorting the facts really undermines your position. Last year when Cherrydale conceived the Buck expansion option no one was discussing boundaries. Cherrydale families were already in the school, so it makes no sense that they were "advocating expanding the space for themselves". When people moved to Cherrydale they had just as much of a right to attend the school as anyone else in the Team. Noah Simmon, former SB member, lived in Cherrydale and sent his kids to ASF, via the Team model. No one in Cherrydale ever advocated to have anyone moved out. A few cowardly psychotic misinformed people decided to get engaged last minute and demonize part of the school.

At least Cherrydale had the dedication to advocate on behalf the of school and to do the hard work required to engage with the County. The new regime has successfully fractured the school and is too busy to do their jobs let alone anything meaningful.

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Anonymous wrote:I was at that meeting. Those yellow shirts were insufferable.

Right right. All the other schools with shirts were just fine but the yellow shirt folks were insufferable. Since you were there how many yellow shirt people were there?

I think we all agree matching shirts=jackasses

If you look at the video, you can see the following asfs staff wearing yellow shirts in the audience:
— the school registrar
— the gym teacher
— the science teacher
— another person who works in the front office
Along with two now former pta officers and their spouses.

The staff getting involved along with the pta weirdness is what lit the match on asfs. Keep in mind those were custom printed shirts, it would have taken weeks to coordinate that.

There is only one former PTA officer in the video.

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Anonymous wrote:What's really interesting is that if you just read the comments in this thread without knowing what actually happened in the election, you get the impression the Cherrydale people flocked to the meeting to vote out Rosslyn people and get a Cherrydale-centered PTA board that would push for a walk zone. In reality, it appears that it was Rosslyn people who flocked to the meeting to vote out Cherrydale-area board members in favor of Rosslyn people.

A Cherrydale centered PTA with participants who did not have students attending the school.

Further, that Cherrydale focused PTA were lottery parents; do think of the Rosslyn PTA members were advocating to the school board to remove lottery families, there would not have been a similar response?

Isn't that what Rosslyn PTA members want to do now? From what I've read on this thread, they seem to hate them all and want them removed from the school?

Very likely that is what they want now, but its a response to the pre-emptive actions from Cherrydale community members making space for themselves at the expense of current Rosslyn students. A bit different; Rosslyn parents were part of the group recommending the Buck site, which is an inclusive approach to make space for all who want to attend their neighborhood school.

Absolutely incorrect. The whole Buck idea was originally thought of and advocated for those who live near the school. They were advocating to expand the school onto Buck last year during the Options and Transfer process, before the Rosslyn folks even understood what was going on. The fact is the Rosslyn/Courthosue crew is an angry and vindictive group who have said and done some really nasty things to several really good people. These same people who were ironically advocating for them. So sad.

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https://commissions.arlingtonva.us/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2017/06/Buck-May-3-Notes.pdf

Exactly they were advocating expanding the space for themselves — to accelerate the adoption of a walk zone. When that tied turned, it was the complaints about traffic and Rosslyn is already going on a bus, so send them to Taylor. We are just saying put the breaks on adding to an overcapacity school until 2021 when the system will have a clearer picture. If you add the Cherrydale walkzone, there isn’t space and someone has to be pushed out — do Cherrydale residents all hate Taylor this much to go to this lengths ; it isn’t like when they moved here they didn’t know the zoned school. Just be patient and chill.

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You will get your walkable school, Cherrydale. Can you just chill until we can all work it out?

You realize that your actions caused the (over)reaction from Rosslyn?

“Baby, I only hit you ‘cause you made me do it.”

Spousal abuse, what a tasteful and appropriate analogy

Don't use abusive language and people won't be able to call you out on it.

Abusive language? What are even talking about? Telling someone to chill is abuse?

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Anonymous wrote:What's really interesting is that if you just read the comments in this thread without knowing what actually happened in the election, you get the impression the Cherrydale people flocked to the meeting to vote out Rosslyn people and get a Cherrydale-centered PTA board that would push for a walk zone. In reality, it appears that it was Rosslyn people who flocked to the meeting to vote out Cherrydale-area board members in favor of Rosslyn people.

A Cherrydale centered PTA with participants who did not have students attending the school.

Further, that Cherrydale focused PTA were lottery parents; do think of the Rosslyn PTA members were advocating to the school board to remove lottery families, there would not have been a similar response?

Isn't that what Rosslyn PTA members want to do now? From what I've read on this thread, they seem to hate them all and want them removed from the school?

Very likely that is what they want now, but its a response to the pre-emptive actions from Cherrydale community members making space for themselves at the expense of current Rosslyn students. A bit different; Rosslyn parents were part of the group recommending the Buck site, which is an inclusive approach to make space for all who want to attend their neighborhood school.

Absolutely incorrect. The whole Buck idea was originally thought of and advocated for those who live near the school. They were advocating to expand the school onto Buck last year during the Options and Transfer process, before the Rosslyn folks even understood what was going on. The fact is the Rosslyn/Courthosue crew is an angry and vindictive group who have said and done some really nasty things to several really good people. These same people who were ironically advocating for them. So sad.

+1
https://commissions.arlingtonva.us/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2017/06/Buck-May-3-Notes.pdf

Exactly they were advocating expanding the space for themselves — to accelerate the adoption of a walk zone. When that tied turned, it was the complaints about traffic and Rosslyn is already going on a bus, so send them to Taylor. We are just saying put the breaks on adding to an overcapacity school until 2021 when the system will have a clearer picture. If you add the Cherrydale walkzone, there isn’t space and someone has to be pushed out — do Cherrydale residents all hate Taylor this much to go to this lengths ; it isn’t like when they moved here they didn’t know the zoned school. Just be patient and chill.

Distorting the facts really undermines your position. Last year when Cherrydale conceived the Buck expansion option no one was discussing boundaries. Cherrydale families were already in the school, so it makes no sense that they were "advocating expanding the space for themselves". When people moved to Cherrydale they had just as much of a right to attend the school as anyone else in the Team. Noah Simmon, former SB member, lived in Cherrydale and sent his kids to ASF, via the Team model. No one in Cherrydale ever advocated to have anyone moved out. A few cowardly psychotic misinformed people decided to get engaged last minute and demonize part of the school.

No Key zone was different than the other Teams, don’t distort things. Key had no non-Immersion option so were automatically accepted to ASFS.

Cherrydale wanted Buck b/c they were afraid they would be sent back to Taylor once Key was no longer had neighbor preference and ASFS population boomed.